| Show Another Pantheon Incident at Rome Special to THE HKIIALD Examiner Cable ROME Nov 10This city was startled yesterday by the announcemont that some scoundrel or scoundrols had desecrated the tomb of Countess Marafiorl tho morgan atis wife of the late King Victor Emanuel following so close upon the Pantheon incident inci-dent It will be remembered a party of French pilerims visiting the tomb of King Victor Emanuel in that church behaved in such a disgraceful manner that their conduct con-duct was resented by the people One of the French visitors at the Pantheon went BO far as to spy in tho visitors book and to I write in it A has Victor EmanueL Vive le Pape But the outrage yesterday I yester-day eclipsed the Pantheon Incident In dev ilish malignity The rascals implicated in outraging the tomb of the Countess Mira florl forced it open and set fire to the t coffin evidently with the object of consum ing LUU laiuuiuii ui fcuu lady who was en deared to many thousands of Romans out of sympathy possibly for the King known as the gallant They were unable to carry out their designs owing to the solidity crry of the zinc shell which formed the soldity por tion of the casttet casKet They succeeded it is true in slightly burning the face and feet of the countess and entirely destroyed the outer casket The police have not as yet made any arrests but they are following up several clues A dark lantern a chisel a wooden mallet chisel a piece malet piec of candle and a cloth cp such as is worn by men belonging to the working classes are in the possession of tho police and are r tjelnt used to hunt down t polce perpetrators of this latest outrage Opinions are divided as to the cause of this sacrilege the supporters of the I government gov-ernment who are in the very large ma 1 I jority say that it is the work either of paid agents of the Vatican or of fanatics whore who-re incensed at tho fact that there is a possibility of the Pope being compelled to leave Rome On the other hand friends of the Vatican say that they can seein the irafiorl incident further evidence of the desire of the Italian government through secret agents to increase the bitter and dangerous feeling already expressed against the Vatican |
